Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] that [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MacDonald returned to London on December 8th to find that the evening papers were prophesying that Baldwin would resign after the weekend and advise the King to send for him . |
| 2 | At the same time , separatist politicsans were predicting that ETA would make its first action a kidnapping rather than a shooting or bombing . |
| 3 | Home help 's we like , were meeting tomorrow and were hoping that Renee will come along and eh update us on things so that we can campaign again starting in October . |
| 4 | The Navigator was remembering that Jaq might be attired right now as one kind of person , whereas actually he was someone else entirely … and Googol needed to be reminded of this . |
| 5 | ‘ No names , no pack drill , but I know somebody who works for her and she was saying that Diana will be jolly pleased to have a lump sum to spend instead of having to go to him for her money . |
| 6 | I knew it was wrong but as time went on I found that despite myself I was hoping that Iraq would win . |
| 7 | I was hoping that Jane would type my application , but when she came to visit me in Cambridge , she had her arm in plaster , having broken it . |
| 8 | I mean , you obviously know what I want here , but I mean I was hoping that Yvonne would come across and work maybe two stroke three days a week for me even when |
| 9 | I was hoping that Vecchi would show up in the near future and save everybody a lot of headaches . |
| 10 | I was hoping that Steinmark would be back on Monday but I 'm afraid that you will have to carry on the best you can . |
| 11 | Ligachev , for instance , argued in a speech in June 1987 that the ‘ class enemy ’ was hoping that perestroika would undermine the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the USSR and had been making use of it to spread ‘ irresponsible demagogy , hostile to the interests of the toilers ’ . |